Shrimp Group Releases Statistics on 2018 Entry Refusals for US, EU, Japan
The Southern Shrimp Alliance in an April 10 email released updated data on shrimp entries rejected by the U.S., the European Union and Japan. The SSA database now includes information from calendar year 2018 on U.S. Food and Drug Administration entry line refusals, the EU's Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF) notices and Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Imported Foods Inspection Services (IFIS). During 2018, the FDA refused 53 entry lines of shrimp due to antibiotics, 23 of which came from China and 15 from India. The "RASFF included another fourteen (14) notices of shrimp refused entry into the European Union because of banned antibiotics," the SAA said. "All but one of these refusals was of shrimp shipped to Europe from India." In Japan, "IFIS reported refusing twenty (20) shipments of shrimp because of the presence of banned antibiotics last year, all originating either from Vietnam (16) or India (4)."
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During the past seven years, "RASFF notifications regarding shrimp contaminated by antibiotics have been dominated by imports sourced from India and Vietnam," the SSA said. "Over the same time period, the vast majority of imported shrimp rejections in Japan because of the presence of banned antibiotics have been of products sourced from Vietnam and India. For the United States, other than the hundreds of refusals for Malaysian shrimp that was likely transshipped Chinese shrimp, the second and third largest sources of refusals were India and Vietnam."